Editorial May 20, 1972 Issue

Working from the Point of Perfection

Alan A. Aylwin

Work in Christian Science is the effort we put forth to understand and affirm the spiritual perfection of God and man, and to reject as false any material evidence that contradicts it. This constitutes scientific prayer, and it results in healing.

The account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis ends with the telling statement, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."^{ Gen. 1:31;} Christian Science maintains that this is a declaration of absolute fact, and it bases all its prayerful reasoning on it. Mrs. Eddy emphasizes this vitally important point: "Christian Science is absolute; it is neither behind the point of perfection nor advancing towards it; it is at this point and must be practised therefrom. Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration."^{ The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 242;}

When, regardless of material sense testimony to the contrary, we recognize and affirm the present fact of God's allness and man's perfect life in Him, we then are in harmony with divine Mind's view of its own creation, and we reflect its healing power. Christ Jesus used the present tense when he said, "I and my Father are one."^{ John 10:30;} To him, that fact was at that moment the actual condition of his being. He was looking out upon the universe from the vantage point of present perfection. He didn't look up from a distance toward this standpoint. He recognized that right then and forever he was at one with the power, intelligence, and harmony of creative Principle, the one Ego.

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